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Fugitive Kind
Tennessee Williams, Allean Hale
Paperback
Social outcasts, misfit survivors, dangerous passions—Tennessee Williams fleshed out the characters and themes that would dominate his later work in Fugitive Kind, one of his earliest plays.
Karmic Traces: Essays
Eliot Weinberger
Paperback
For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into...
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts
Roger Shattuck
Paperback
With Candor and Perversion, Roger Shattuck has written the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten our Western literary heritage.
The Annotated Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, W. W. Denslow, Martin Gardner
Hardback
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of its publication, a beautifully illustrated annotation of The Wizard of Oz, complete with an exact reproduction of the original 1900 edition.
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
Robert Alter
Paperback
"A masterpiece of contemporary Bible translation and commentary."—Los Angeles Times Book Review, Best Books of 1999